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<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nIt’s not that I’m all that smart, that I make this prediction, but reading Mich\u00e8le Flournoy’s bio, she falls right in line with the President and she’d be a rubber stamp for him. According to the Washington Post<\/a> in their rundown of candidates, she is the CEO of the Center for a New American Security, an organization the Post calls “a non-partisan think tank”. Yeah, they’re the guys who want to change military retirement. They’re the guys who recommended pay cuts for the troops and making out-of-pocket health care costs for retirees more expensive. <\/p>\n Another member of their staff is Phil Carter, a founder of IAVA and Obama’s veteran adviser during the 2008 campaign who became the Deputy Secretary of Defense for Detainee Affairs. Oh, yeah he also wrote anti-Bush propaganda in the Washington Post for a spell before making the leap to politics.<\/p>\n Mich\u00e8le Flournoy worked at the Defense Department for Gates and Panetta, so she knows what is expected of her. Besides, we’ll need headlines about how she’s the first female Secretary of Defense to clog up the news cycle with non-news.<\/p>\n There are other choices, like John McHugh, the current Secretary of the Army and former Republican Congressman – Democrat Presidents love to have a Republican SecDef to blame their troubles upon. Maybus, the Navy Secretary is mentioned in the article, too. <\/p>\n Whoever the choice ends up being, we can be pretty sure that it won’t be someone who has the welfare of the troops, or even actual national security as their priority. The administration is looking for someone who will be the most rubber stampy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"